Embodiment
The terms is given to somthing which has no body. Definitions are linked with spirituality and the personal.
Creating a Creative Family Tree - this task allowed to reflect on my practice so far and seemed to clarify some of the routes I had been exploring in relation to my own work.
Notions of Disenchantment and Reenchantment - Suzy Gablick Re-enchantment of Art, discusses the creative practice and the job.
In relation to Balinese dance there is both an active and dynamic tension. The culture includes both visible and invisible realms which co-exist and equate to both the physical and the spiritual.
The question is, how far do you have to know something to embody it?
Gablick claims that the disengagement within western culture has in fact created a atrophy in terms of how we engage. These are defined in the following terms:
LACUNAE - Gap or empty space, used in relation to the sense of spirituality. Seeking out a self that needs to be filled.
EMIC/ETIC - Emic denotes account of culture from within - Etic the view from outside that culture.
AXIOLOGICAL - Enages with the idea of value judgement, acknowledging knowledge.
DEEP PLAY - Involvment with something at an unconcious level
DEEP ACTING - Trained imagination "as if", simulates the moment.
These terms are interesting in temrs of the role I play in the exploration of my work work, how much of the work is done at an unconcious level, for example, the use on construction and sewing in my practice has been passed through the generations, perhaps I could explore this notion through the idea of deep play.
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